Montana Territory, Deer Lodge County, Second Judicial District Court of the United States : the United States of America, plaintiffs against the Montana Improvement Company (limited), and the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, defendants : motion to strike out. [1883?]

Montana Improvement Company

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Northern Pacific Railroad Company

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These documents are duplicate copies from the papers of George A. Brackett, now part of the Northern Pacific Railroad collection at the Minnesota Historical Society. From the description of Papers. 1864-1914. (Tri-College Library). WorldCat record id: 18832082 Isaac "Ike" Gravelle was born in Canada in October 1871. He came to the United States in 1886. He was sent to the Montana State Prison in May 1891 on a conviction for horse stealing. After his release in 1893 he worked...

United States,

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United States. District Court (Montana)

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U.S. district and circuit courts were created by the Judiciary Act of 1789 under the authority of the constitutional provision that the judicial power of the United States be vested in a Supreme Court and in such inferior courts as the Congress may establish. The Judiciary Act provided that these courts were to have original jurisdiction in cases involving crimes, remedies of common law, and aliens suing for a tort. The district courts were to have exclusive original cognizance of c...